RT @SABCNews: [WATCH] Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma has passed away. He died in a hospital in Windhoek, Namibia.

@TheNamibian RIP.

RT @AmazighWNews: #URGENT 🚨: A year & half after the devastating earthquake, many #Amazigh families in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains are STILL…

Somalia: to date, Islamic State "has posed less of a threat than the Islamist group al-Shabab." In recent times, however, IS has become more significant. Will President Trump prove a reliable partner in combating their growing ambition, Mary Harper asks.

Philippines’ Duterte mulls presidential bid amid impeachment fight

China derides U.S. "pressure and coercion" as Panama scraps Belt and Road deal with Beijing amid canal standoff

DRC: Deaths near 3,000 in fighting for Goma, says UN.

DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire.

Intelligence workers across multiple US agencies are among the 2 million federal employees getting buyout offers.

@joma_gc @elonmusk Elon Musk is entertaining (and rich) for sure—and can be disarming at times—but that doesn't change the fact that he, like other tech leaders trying to do business in China, is exposed to pressure that is not necessarily aligned with the interests of the American people.

United States: still locked out of federal funding, several Head Start preschools may need to close temporarily

Milwaukee, United States: Amber Alert issued for pregnant 16-year-old.

CIA offers buyouts to entire workforce to align with Trump priorities, sources say

@BasedMikeLee *Ehem* cutting costs is indeed usually one tool in the arsenal—often visible in the "ascent to power" years when the would-be fascist leader is determined to undermine what went before.

Chinese executives in US fentanyl case: "Wang and Chen were found guilty of conspiracy to import a fentanyl precursor... The jury found they had cause to believe it would be used to make fentanyl, but not that they had intent to make it."

Police say about 10 dead in shooting at adult school in Sweden’s Orebro

@detroitnews Literacy for all is the most fundamental goal, I agree. Still, it's worth bearing in mind that there are others... including giving wings to bright kids without, say, home support.

Following President Trump's designation of cartels as foreign terrorist groups, a U.S. Air Force RC-135V “Rivet Joint” Signals Intelligence Platform is operating over the Gulf of California between Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa.